Analysis of The Divine Lover
Phineas Fletcher 1582 (Cranbrook) – 1650
Me Lord? can’st thou mispend
One word, misplace one look on me?
Call’st me thy Love, thy Friend?
Can this poor soul the object be
Of these love-glances, those life-kindling eyes?
What? I the Centre of thy arms embraces?
Of all thy labour I the prize?
Love never mocks, Truth never lies.
Oh how I quake: Hope fear, fear hope displaces:
I would, but cannot hope: such wondrous love amazes.
See, I am black as night,
See I am darkness: dark as hell.
Lord thou more fair than light;
Heav’ns Sun thy Shadow; can Sunns dwell
With Shades? ’twixt light, and darkness what commerce?
True: thou art darkness, I thy Light: my ray
Thy mists, and hellish foggs shall pierce.
With me, black soul, with me converse.
I make the foul December flowry May,
Turn thou thy night to me: I’le turn thy night to day.
See Lord, see I am dead:
Tomb’d in my self: my self my grave
A drudge: so born, so bred:
My self even to my self a slave.
Thou Freedom, Life: can Life, and Liberty
Love bondage, death? Thy Freedom I: I tyed
To loose thy bonds: be bound to me:
My Yoke shall ease, my bonds shall free.
Dead soul, thy Spring of life, my dying side:
There dye with me to live: to live in thee I dyed.
Scheme | ABABCDCCDD AEAEFGXFGA AHAHAABBAA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 11111 11011111 111111 11110101 1111011101 11010111010 1111101 11011101 11111111010 1111011101010 111111 11110111 111111 1111111 1111010110 1111011111 11010111 11111110 110101011 111111111111 111111 10111111 011111 111011101 1101110100 1101110111 11111111 11111111 1111111101 111111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,305 |
Words | 231 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 293 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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